Tai CHI for the Stress Belly (Paperback or Softback)

You didn't get a stress belly from one bad weekend. You got it from six years of back-to-back meetings.

If you've tracked every calorie, hit the gym before dawn, and still can't shift the weight around your middle, the problem was never your discipline - it was chronic cortisol, the stress hormone your demanding job keeps elevated hour after hour, and it specifically targets abdominal fat while making it resistant to willpower alone.

Tai Chi for the Stress Belly is a rigorously evidence-informed 6-week program built entirely around a real professional schedule: three 10-minute standing sessions - a morning primer, a midday reset, an evening wind-down - woven directly into the natural pauses of your workday. No mat, no gym, no extra hour you don't have.

What's inside:

• The complete Desk-Break Method: three daily windows, six progressive weeks, zero equipment
• A full chapter laying out the actual research behind cortisol, visceral fat, and tai chi - no vague wellness claims
• Role-specific adaptations for remote workers, frequent travelers, founders, managers, and high-stimulation roles
• Portable breathing tools for boardrooms, tense calls, and travel disruption
• A cortisol-smart approach to eating, caffeine, alcohol, and sleep - built for a real calendar, not a fantasy one
• Protocols for surviving crunch weeks, business travel, and meeting-heavy days without abandoning the program
• Scripts for explaining the practice to skeptical colleagues
• Thirteen practical appendices: quick-reference movements, a 42-day log, calendar templates by role, and more

Perfect for working professionals, managers, founders, and anyone in a demanding role who has tried harder diets and more intense workouts without touching the fat around their middle - and who wants evidence, not platitudes, before committing their limited time. Makes a sharp, useful gift for a colleague running on empty.

No guaranteed number. No miracle timeline. Just a mechanism most fitness advice ignores, addressed with a system built for the calendar you actually have.

Scroll up and start your first ten-minute session before your next meeting.